A bucket list of similarities? There is a list of things the game want to accomplish before it dies of similarities?

Other fighting games are allowed to exist than Street Fighter. That isn’t what this lawsuit is about. A fighting game isn’t allowed to come along and have a character named Ryo with a white gi and a red headband with moves like the “cyclone” kick and “dragon uppercut”. Hex copied mechanics, aesthetics, cards, game progression, hand size, tapping, card names, etc. Hex is too similar to Magic to be legally allowed.

I did read the entire document. And yes, I agree that there’s a big bucket list of similarities. But I don’t think it’s enough for Wizards to stop Crytozoic.

I’m sure it wouldn’t take long to make up a similarly long list of similarities between Call of Duty and Battlefield, or Starcraft and Command and Conquer, or Diablo 3 and Path of Exile. It’s not like the first game in a genre gets a bulletproof monopoly on all future games (ie: not every FPS is Doom, not every fighting game is Street Fighter, others are allowed to exist).

But, like Corbin and most of you folks, I am not a lawyer. I’m not sure who has the letter of the law on their side. I DO think that Cryptozoic has the ability to keep doing what they’re doing.

I am not. I’m saying they saw something they liked, adapted it to fit their game, and then made money off it.

“Can’t even do is job”

Muphry’s Law claims another victim

Are you proposing that WOW invented provoke and Twilight invented vampires?

This isn’t a case of a couple random references here or there, it’s a case of fundamentally designing a game to look and feel like another (aka, copying).

The vampire comparison doesn’t hold any water because vampires, themselves, can’t be copyrighted. It’s wholly public domain. But the problem arises when you steal or come too close to someone’s uniquely designed mythos containing vampires (see: Whitewolf vs Underworld).

…and that’s what Cryptozoic (at least according to WotC … and it’s outlined in great detail in the brief) is doing with Hex.

Your point about Lifelink vs Lifedrain does point out a strong similarity. But fanatasy worlds often have this sort of effect. Lifeleech, Lifesteal, being a vampire, whatever you call it, “attacking causes the attacker to gain life”… not sure you can successfully sue someone over that.

Its funny how when World of Warcraft TCG comes out, Magic can do Provoke, and when Twilight movies come out, Magic does Vampires, but as soon as its the other way around, they sick the lawyers like rabid pitbulls.

Well played lawer, can’t even do is Job.

By the way I have this kind of attack. Sure WOTC want to protect their IP but I don’t see why some challenger would hurt them (let’s set aside HearthStone)